Poor old Thomas! Condemned to go down in history as ‘Doubting Thomas’, for demanding proof of the risen Jesus. Yet how many of us would admit to a sneaking sympathy for Thomas? How many of us would have done exactly the same thing in his shoes? In our defence we come to the story from a slightly different angle to that of Thomas’s; we come
Do you ever wonder how different things would have been if we had reached the tomb a little earlier? What if we had reached the tomb in time to witness the detail of what happened next? Would witnessing what happened next have changed the way we live? We are told that the empty tomb gives our life purpose. Belief in the resurrection means we can
Here we are again at the beginning of Holy Week, but what is it that makes Holy week holy? As we process into Church on Palm Sunday waving our palms or weaving them into crosses, it’s tempting to feel that this is all just a commemoration of the past. But if Holy Week doesn’t impact on our lives a little more with each passing year,
It’s a sad fact of life, if you do something good, it isn’t remembered for very long. You are only as good as your last good deed. But if you do something bad, there will be those who insist on never forgetting it. There will always be those who mutter, “Oh that’s ‘so and so’ the one who had the affair.” “That Mr. Thingymajig, the
The Gardener, the Fig Tree and the Promise When people die, especially in tragic or premature circumstances, we are left with a sense of injustice. There are some who will question what kind of God we have who can allow such unfairness. But the bottom line is that life simply isn’t metered out to us in equal proportions. Death simply happens. There is no intent
‘Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you’. Surely that's a recipe for becoming a doormat, yet this is what Jesus is asking us to do in today's gospel. The six o'clock news fuels our anger. We want to fight back at the aggressors. We want to hit back at the terrorists who hurt us. We want to see consequences for those
